Sanctuary Wiki:Translation Project
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This project deals with converting articles from the Sanctuary Wiki into other languages and how to accomplish that task.
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[edit] Overview
Presently, all of the content on this wiki is in english — American english, to be specific. We have people who view this Wiki from other countries, as far away as Europe and Asia. And likely further.
Therefore, this is a formal effort to recruit mutlilingual contributors and organize these contributors to translate our documents in other languages. Once there is enough translations of a particular translation, the Sanctuary Wiki, as a group, will sit down and see if there is cause enough for a full language site with the "sanctuarywiki.org" domain name.
Every language starts out with at least two sysops approved by the English administrators. Afterwards the wiki must hold their own RFA hearings.
If you want to help out with any or all of these language wikis, please goto those sites. Keep in mind that you will have to refer to this Wiki for policy questions.
[edit] How to Begin
To begin, create a subpage of the article you wish to translate. For instance, let's say you were going to tackle the article on Sanctuary (place) and translate it into Spanish. Here's how you would begin:
- In the search box, type in:
- es:Sanctuary (place)
- Press "Go". Select "create this article" option.
- Begin translating the article. Once done, list the article on this page under Articles Translated.
Once there are a growing number of articles, Joe will then set up an individual Wiki for that language. (i.e. de.sanctuarywiki.org for German Sanctuary Wiki, et al.). Never, ever, place interwiki links on these subpages.
[edit] Articles Needing Translation
Obviously our eventual goal is to have just about everything translated. Rather than listing every page here, this can be used to request critical pages for translators to focus on.
These three should be the first ones done.
- Sanctuary Wiki:Spoiler Policy - All languages.
- Sanctuary Wiki:Standards and Conventions - All languages.
- Sanctuary Wiki:Citation Practices - All languages.
There are others to be translated as well that need to be translated before you can even get your own-wiki. Please take a look at the list here. If you can prove that you can dedicated a full force of at least 5-10 people to translating all the required information, we will create a language wiki without question and import all your work to the language wiki.
It is suggested you start from the oldest episodes and articles first before you more to articles that always under going edits.
There are standards and conventions for translating. Please read this before doing anything.
[edit] Who is admin of these wikis during setup?
Joe will be the overall admin (B-crats, Sysop, checkuser), but you would have to decided as a group who will represent your language.
[edit] Language Specific Spoiler Checkpoints
Feel free to adjust the title of this section. This section is intended to be a handy place to keep track of how far the series has progressed in the particular languages, in order to avoid translating spoiler content over from the English side. Only languages that are translating in conjunction with the English Wiki are listed here.
[edit] Contributors
Contributors to this project may be added here. Please include the languages you would be interested in translating our documents to, as well as your level of expertise in said language.
[edit] More than one non-American English language
[edit] Technical personel
- People who really don't translate anything, but will help in behind-the-scenes technical tasks. Or people who promote the effort. Things like that.
- Joe Beaudoin 23:00, 13 February 2006 (EST) -- will set up new wikis as the number of documents translated increases and other BTS tasks (the Wizard of Oz, as it were)
[edit] Articles in Progress
Articles that have begun the translation process. They could use more content translated or another eye to look at it (or both).
[edit] Articles Translated
List all articles that have been translated here. Also include the language that they were translated in.
[edit] Templates Translated
List all templates that have been translated here. Also include the language that they were translated in.
